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AHO

Australian Hydrographic Office

ANSI

American National Standards Institute

AODN

Australia Ocean Data Network

API

Application Programming Interface

ATRF

Australian Terrestrial Reference Frame

AUV

Autonomous Underwater Vehicle

CRS

Coordinate Reference System (default standard uses EPSG.io: Coordinate Systems Worldwide)

Contributing Data Partner

A contributing data partner is an organisation that has agreed to assign custodianship for a data product to GA, as an implemented AusSeabed Data Hub.

Contributing Hub

A Contributing Hub is:

  • A data store that provides data processed to the AusSeabed standard

  • Connected to the broader AusSeabed Data Hub component infrastructure for seamless delivery to the end user

  • Meaningfully supported from within their own organisation with a forward commitment to continue for at least 12months.

CSIRO

Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation

DCAT/RDF

DCAT is an RDF vocabulary designed to facilitate interoperability between data catalogues published on the Web.

DOI

Persistent Digital Object Identifier (https://www.doi.org )

eCat

Geoscience Australia’s Product Catalogue https://ecat.ga.gov.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/home

FORCE11 FAIR

Fair Data Principles

https://www.force11.org/group/fairgroup/fairprinciples

GA

Geoscience Australia

GEBCO

General Bathymetric Chart of the Oceans - https://www.gebco.net/

GeoNetwork

The GeoNetwork open source project is a free and open source cataloguing application for spatially referenced resources.

IHO DCDB

International Hydrographic Organisation’s Data Centre for Digital Bathymetry https://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/iho/

ISO

International Organisation for Standardisation

LADS

Laser Airborne Depth Sounder

L0

An AusSeabed term to categorise a data level relating to Raw data

L2

An AusSeabed term to categorise a data level relating to Processed data

L3

An AusSeabed term to categorise a data level relating to gridded products

MBES

Multibeam echosounder

NOAA

US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

OAI-PMH

Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting

OGC CSW

Open Geospatial Consortium – Catalogue Service for the Web

OGC GML

Open Geospatial Consortium – Geography Markup Language

OpenSearch

OpenSearch is a community-driven, open source search and analytics suite

QAX

Quality Assurance Tool

ROV

Remotely Operated Underwater Vehicle

SBES

Singlebeam echosounder

SeaDataNet

Pan-European marine data infrastructure https://www.seadatanet.org/

SOI

Schmidt Ocean Institute

URI

Uniform Resource Identifier – This is a unique sequence of characters that identifies a logical or physical resource used by web technologies.

UTC

Coordinated Universal Time – primary time standard

WCD

Water Column Data

Z39.50

Z39.50 is an international standard client–server, application layer communications protocol for searching and retrieving information from a database over a TCP/IP computer network. It is covered by ANSI/NISO standard Z39.50, and ISO standard 23950

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